Digital Darkness: What You're Not Seeing Could Hurt Them

⚠️ Warning: It May Be Time to ReEVALUATE

🗓️ June 20, 2016

📸 [Image Caption: “Huggins in the morning”]

Gently waking up to affection from my partner this morning felt comforting… but also deceptive. Because this photo right here? That’s bedtime energy. Let me show you what mornings actually feel like for me… 😩

The past three days have been emotionally intense. On Friday, I broke. The year of stress, pain, and emotional exhaustion caught up to me, and when the kids left to spend the weekend with their dad, I finally released it all.

⚔️ The Past Year?

A full-blown battlefield.

Problem after problem family conflicts, work stress, health concerns, broken friendships. Just as we’d catch our breath, something else would hit. And woven into it all: a new, deeply disturbing wave of outside forces digital evil.

Fake identities.

Hacked social media accounts.

Manipulation.

People inventing lies and creeping into networks not just for attention, but for entertainment. It’s disgusting. And terrifying.

What scares me most?

They’re coming for our kids.

🎮 Digital Danger Zones

Today’s children are being pulled into online gaming worlds, and many parents (myself included) are often so busy with the hustle of life work, bills, food, survival that we don’t notice when the danger walks right through our front door… through a screen.

Kids are innocent. They don’t always recognize evil because they’ve never known it. They just know someone’s “a little different.”

But there’s a difference between “different” and dark.

And some spirits come in slick and slow manipulative, hateful, and dangerous.

Not every child can walk away.

Some are stuck by circumstance family, loneliness, trauma, environment.

But we as parents must rise. We have to protect them. Because no one else will.

The gaming world is a highway one that many young minds are traveling without a map. They’re getting manipulated emotionally before their brains are even done developing. They’re vulnerable. And evil knows it.

We do everything to be “good parents.” We work, we show up, we care.

👉 “Sometimes, we miss the boat.”

And when we miss it, guilt hits HARD.

🚨 This Morning’s Wake-Up Call

This morning, both of us overheard some of the conversation my son was having while gaming his safe space, his passion. But something felt… off.

The voice coming through the headset sounded older.

Different.

Wrong.

We didn’t rush in.

We watched. We listened.

At first, it seemed like one of his long-time gaming friends, a boy I remembered. But something had changed. The voice had shifted. His tone was darker. Then came the line:

🗨️ “I only play to watch others die.”

What in the hell.

I know kids say dark stuff sometimes. I was raised on punk rock and sarcasm I’m no stranger to it. But this felt different. I noticed my son had been quieter lately. Sadder. Heavy.

I couldn’t ignore it anymore.

🔍 This relationship needs to be re-evaluated.

Parents know who your kids are spending time with online. Before you lose them.

🕵️‍♀️ My Personal Digital War

Meanwhile, I’ve been dealing with my own online stalkers yes, stalkers.

A specific group of haters who’ve been:

Stealing and editing my photos

Creating fake accounts

Posing as family

Mocking and manipulating my posts

They were connected. Coordinated. They learned my fears, studied me, twisted my reality and created situations that mimicked my worst nightmares. They didn’t want me happy. They didn’t want me safe.

They fed off my vulnerability.

And guess what? When I was most emotional, crying, broken, bleeding into my blogs—my stats soared.

📈 Over 6,000 views in a day.

But when I was deep in prayer, working on my retreat, talking to God?

Silence. Peace. Low numbers.

No attacks.

So, yes. Our family’s entire social media presence is under review.

It has to be.

🖤 The Reality My Students Knew First

Years ago, my 8th graders warned me about the Dark Side of the internet.

I thought they were exaggerating. They weren’t.

There are online communities that:

Encourage suicide, Reward violence with “tokens”, Urge kids to beat homeless people for money, Cheer on trauma like it’s entertainment

Kids are live-streaming their pain...And strangers are clapping.

I used to tell them, “Stay off the dark side.”

But I was naïve.

That darkness isn’t in one place. It’s everywhere. And it’s spreading.

🧠 It Was Never Just About Us

Our struggle this year wasn’t just personal, it was spiritual.

It hit me.

It hit my family.

And it hit my son.

And when that many hearts are under attack, it’s time to pause.

It’s time to protect.

It’s time to reEVALUATE.

🪢 When You’re At the End of the Rope...

Life sometimes feels like a never-ending tug of war. You grip, you pull, you fight.

Then comes the fatigue.

Your hands slip.

You lose your grip.

And then

You let go.

In those moments, choose what lifts you.

☀️ Surround yourself with those who love you, your people.

💄 Put on your lipstick, even if your heart’s heavy.

🎤 Laugh.

📝 Write.

💻 Do your work.

💋 Intimacy helps, too.

We all have our lifelines. Find yours. Use them.

🔎 Final Reminder

Please, check in with the world your loved ones are engaging with.

👀 Fake Facebook profiles are popping up left and right.

Elderly family members are being targeted.

Photos are being stolen and used by strangers.

Accounts are being made using names like “Group of Ladies” but show no real people.

Search your name.

Check your kids’ names.

Report what’s not real.

Don’t let darkness hide in plain sight.

🧘 Tarot Pull Suggestion:

Page of Swords • The Moon • The Hierophant Reversed

The warning is clear. Eyes wide open. Don’t ignore what’s hidden. Seek truth, even if it breaks your illusion. It’s time to break free from blind trust and create a new standard of safety, spiritually and digitally.